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Shawn Mims (born March 22, 1981 in Washington Heights, New York City), better known by his stage name Mims, is an American rapper of Jamaican descent signed to his own American King Records. In 2007 he released his debut album, Music is My Savior, and his second album, Guilt was released in April of 2009. He is perhaps best known for his debut single, This Is Why I'm Hot, which was a smash hit, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Mims graduated High School and enrolled at Nassau Community College. He left the institution after a mere two months...

The Mimsies were a band from Norman, OK, active between 1994 and 2004. Their most well known album was 'Trash Rock and Roll' released in 2001. A supernova of sex, sweat and rock-n-roll: How else to describe the Oklahoma-bred Mimsies' explosion on the L.A. music scene? Actually, there are quite a few other ways. The L.A. Weekly, no small potatoes there, hails them as "Siouxsie & the Banshees meets Motley Crue," and calls lead songstress Casey Shelton an "in-the-moment and only-in-your-dreams glitter punk diva equal parts Gwen Stefani and Pat Benatar." Rival publication New Times Los Angeles, in a rare...